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Goldman Sachs Did An Excellent Job of Bailing Out Goldman Sachs
THE NEW YORK TIMES August 9, 2009 Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. Before he became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to hold himself to a higher ethical standard than his predecessors. He not only sold all his holdings […]
MoreSenate Turns Aside New Attempt to Scrutinize Fed
REUTERS Mon Jul 6, 2009 5:59pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve, facing growing pressure as it tries to heal the ailing economy, dodged a bullet on Monday when the U.S. Senate cast aside a new effort to increase scrutiny of the central bank. On procedural grounds, the Senate blocked a bid to […]
MoreIt’s Goldman Sachs’ Party And They’ll Profit If They Want To
THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE ROLLING STONE MATT TAIBBI From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment […]
MoreBig Banks Get Big Time Changes
Jun 17, 7:13 PM (ET) By JIM KUHNHENN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) – From simple home loans to Wall Street’s most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new “rules of the road” for the nation’s battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama. Aimed at […]
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